Finally, in his symposium piece in this issue, Professor Merrill argues that conventionalism leads to judicial restraint more than textualism and thus that conservatives, as advocates of judicial restraint, ought to be conventionalists.

92) Conventionalists would insist that in such a case, "the Court should have made plain to the public the exceptional nature of its decision, that it should have admitted it was changing the law for nonlegal reasons.

Yet the activity of classical political philosophy with respect to this very concern, our immortality, is overlooked by those who view classical political philosophy, as Murray does, as a historically necessary (and historically limited) defense of the city's justice against the critique of ancient conventionalists, a defense that ends in the fatal monism of the polis.

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